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From: tjs@wuee1.wustl.edu (tom sullivan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: dump on old 1.2 Ultrix...
Message-ID: <413@wuee1.wustl.edu>
Date: 1 Aug 89 15:12:02 GMT
References: <412@wuee1.wustl.edu> <1226@gvgpsa.GVG.TEK.COM> <7487@cbmvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: tjs@wuee1.wustl.edu (tom sullivan)
Organization: Washington University, St. Louis, MO
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In article <7487@cbmvax.UUCP> grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) writes:
>In article <1226@gvgpsa.GVG.TEK.COM> davew@gvgpsa.gvg.tek.com (David C. White) writes:

>> It may be possible to grab the driver out of the 3.0 you seem to
>> imply that you have, but I haven't really looked into whether

>Drivers are generally not binary transportable across major releases and the
>3.0 stuff especially, since kernel level memory allocation stuff changed.

This is all due to my original posting. I have tried the 3.0 dump, and
George Robbins is correct, the drivers don't work. I have tried a 4.3
dump and it appears to be working well. Dump times for 80 Meg are
down from 6+ hours to about 30 minutes.

thanks for all the suggestions.

tom